The Empire. Friday, May 21, 1852. Miners' Letters
THOUGH we felt called upon to take very serious exceptions to the appointment of Major Christie to the important office of Postmaster-General, nobody will be more…
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Grievances of the Mines. No. 4. Review of the Code As to Quartz Claims and Alluvial Monopolies. (Per favour of the Empire.) To James Martin, EsQ., M L.C.
DEAR SIR—Having disposed of the Regulations with respect to Traders' Licenses and Licences for digging on private lands, 1 shall now proceed to examine the equity and general policy of the…
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THE reports from the western diggings this week are highly satisfactory, and the yield is imporving, as will be seen by the quantity arrived per escort. In the neighbourhood of Long Creek, it is not considered at all…
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The quantity of gold dust received from our Mines during the current week, fully bears out my oft-expressed opinion, that the amount raised in proportion to population in this colony is not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lake Bathurst Australasian Gold Mining Company. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Several persons having in consequence of the Extracts published in your issue of this moring of the Prospe tus of a Company formed under the above designation)…
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ALLUVIAL LICENSES—WORKING OF PRESENT SYSTEM—UNIFORM SYSTEM PROPOSED—MINT AND ASSAY OFFICES. (Per favour of the Empire.)…
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Tuena Creek and its diggings are beginning to attract the attention of the Bathurst gold buyers, a few of whom visit the place periodically for the pros[?]tion of their mercantile pursuits. Several rather large samples have lately reached Bathurst is this…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gold Receiver's Declaration. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)
COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 20th May, 1852.—Whereas by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, passed in the ninth year of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Empire. Saturday, May 22, 1852. the Gold Companies' Agents
IN the various prospectuses of gold mining companies put forth by rapacious and unprincipled schemers in the mother country, the names of residents in Sydney…
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IN my remarks upon the facility with which the practised gold, digger recognizes the peculiarities that distinguished the likely spots for the remunerative employment of his labor, I do not for a moment wish it to be supposed that I attempt to insinuate that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Empire. Monday; May 24, 1852. The-anglo-australian Gold Mining Companies
EVERY virtue is nearly allied to a vice, and every benefit to an injury. Mischiefs are for the most part the products of right principles either wrongly, extremely, or…
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The amount of gold brought down on Monday by the Escort from the Southern Diggings was very small. The following is a list of the consignments…
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The following letter appears in the Goulburn Herald of last Saturday:- "SIR—A few days since, being on a journey amongst the mountains, I was overtaken by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Intelligence. the Dirt Hole and Tambaroura Creek Diggings. (From the Bathurst Free Press, May 22.)
From the latest accounts, we learn that matters are proceeding steadily at the Dirt Hole and Tambaroura Creek diggings. The population remains us nearly as possible stationary, and the…
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RATION HILL,, Turon River, May 23, 1852.— For the third time, a great sacrifice has been made to endeavour to bring to light the hidden treasure generally supposed to be buried…
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We have received the subjoined letter from the Rev. W. B. Clarke. The Rev. gentleman is under a wrong impression if he supposes that all our information was derived from what appeared in the…
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The question continues to be asked on all hands—What has become of the enormous supply of gold which has been so suddenly and unexpectedly thrown upon the markets…
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The sanguine hopes of prosperity of the Turon diggers have been again blighted by another heavy fall of rain. The river has risen from three to four feet, and many of the races which…
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